Movies like Esteros
If Esteros's mix of coming out, friendship and past stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Esteros's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Heartstopper Forever
2026 · Directed by Wash Westmoreland · 110 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: coming out, friendship, gay theme · Also romance and drama
It's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life after the last bell rings.
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Looking: The Movie
2016 · Directed by Andrew Haigh · 85 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, love, gay theme · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2010s)
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult…
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Those People
2015 · Directed by Joey Kuhn · 89 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, male homosexuality, gay theme · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2010s)
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
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Maurice
1987 · Directed by James Ivory · 140 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: coming out, gay theme · Also drama and romance
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 · Directed by Stephen Chbosky · 103 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him…
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Endless Poetry
2016 · Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic…
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Moonlight
2016 · Directed by Barry Jenkins · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: male homosexuality, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…
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My Policeman
2022 · Directed by Michael Grandage · 113 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when…
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Firebird
2021 · Directed by Peeter Rebane · 107 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
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Supernova
2020 · Directed by Harry Macqueen · 94 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also romance and drama
Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past.
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…